BARRINGTON — Tonight, the Building Committee will seek residents’ input on several building options for the town’s library, School Administrative Unit (SAU) office, Town Hall, and Recreation Department office.

At the request of the selectmen, the Building Committee has been meeting since 2010 and examining options to provide adequate space for the four public spaces in town.

Tonight, committee members present seven building options up for consideration, with price of the project ranging from $5 million to $9 million, said Town Administrator John Scruton.

“We want citizen input on what options we should take the next step in,” he said.

Two of the options on the table involve renovating the old Town Hall, the large brick building at the corner of Ramsdell Lane and Route 9. Before it sustained water damage and mold in 2010, the building used to house the town offices, the SAU offices, and the Recreation Department. Now, the town offices are in a rented building on Route 125; the Recreation Department is in a small space next to the town gym on Ramsdell Lane; and the SAU offices are at the Early Childhood Learning Center.

“For the SAU, it’s tight,” said Scruton. “(Early Childhood Learning Center) would like to do more with kindergarten and they can’t, because they’re occupying their space with the SAU office.”

The library, said Scruton, is only 4,000 square feet, while experts recommend a town the size of Barrington should have a library closer to 17,000 square feet.

If the old Town Hall is renovated, the town could benefit from the past efficiency of having the SAU, town offices, and the Recreation Department being one location. With the renovation, the library would either be located on the town-owned property known as the Clark-Goodwill property off Route 9, at a cost of approximately $6.8 million, or at a newly acquired property in the town center, for a price tag of $7.1 million to $7.2 million.

Scruton said the benefit of having the library being located in the town center, in the area of Route 125 and Route 9, is to create the feeling of a downtown.

The least expensive building option, said Scruton, is to build a new library at a town-owned property and leave all other spaces as they are.

The current town office space, though, is inadequate when it comes to storage and meeting space, said Scruton. Much of the town records are currently kept at the old Town Hall, and one of the rooms that could be used for meetings can only fit eight to 10 chairs, making it impossible to invite members of the public to certain meetings.

The $9 million price tag would include buying a new piece of land in the center of town and constructing two buildings on that land — one for the new library and one for the town offices and Recreation Department.

The second most expensive option is building the two new buildings on the town-owned Clark-Goodwill property, off Route 9, which recently got subdivided after Turbocam submitted site plans to build a light manufacturing plant on one of the parcels in that area.

After tonight’s meeting, the Building Committee will make a recommendation to selectmen, who will make the final decision on how to proceed with building or renovating the public spaces.

Scruton said if consensus on the chosen building option is reached in time, that option will likely appear on the town warrant this March.

Regardless of what building option is chosen, the new construction or renovation will likely be paid through a bond lasting 15 to 20 years.

Scruton said that with the current low interest rates and low construction costs, it would be a good time to begin working on the building projects.

“It would be a good time to lock in the low interest,” said Scruton.

The public informational meeting will take place tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Early Childhood Learning Center on Ramsdell Lane.